This week, Brussels is offering you not only one but two full night of cinemas! That’s one of those coïncidence of the agenda which brings the same type of – original – concept the very same week. Watching and documenting what’s going in Brussels since years now, I’ve since that often.

The first one is a classic: every year is the Anima festival in Flagey, and one of their highlight is the Nuit animée on Saturday night. The second one is l’Heure d’hiver, the counterpart of the summer festival ‘L’heure d’été” by Cinéma des Galeries. Because it’s winter and they seem to long for the Summer to come, the cinema decided to travel : around Brussels and camp in Halles de Schaerbeek and to travel in an island: the theme of all the movies and tv show which will be screened that night.

There’s many other proposals to see movies and documentaries in town: mainly in movie clubs, alternative and this week proposals might be mostly in French, so take your time to check the links below if you’re interrested…

If you want to go to an exhibition, again, there’s a decent number of choices and I’ve decided, once again to focus on the ones at the edge… And it’s exactly what the museum arts&marges is doing: showing us the work of the mors fragiles among us… This week is the opening of American Folk Art. The folk in question is people living in the great South of the US, not with the more artsy reputation… but yet, there’s some creativity over there…

More classy is this appartment not so far from Châtelain area which is every once in a while a project space, called Middlemarch. Patrick Carpentier will have a “Conversation with a bird” exhibition..

If you’re looking for the big thrill, maybe the Horro Formalism exhibition at InBetween art space will be for you.

Close your eyes if you don’t want to see horrors, and let’s meet at the Beursschouwburg for a play “For Your Ears Only” where there’s nothing to see..

And if you feel like hunting, there’s a workshop to teach you how to hunt electric pylônes… !

And then it’s time to talk about my favourite concert this week: La Tendre émeute will be playing at Magasin 4. It’s crazy, weird, sexy, horrifying, never boring, crowded: you won’t have a rest during the show but yet at the end of it, you’ll crave for more. La Tendre émeute. Go and discover if you don’t know it yet.

Other type of crowd, less crazy more trendy, will be certainly showing up at the Cafe Central, for once, because that’s where Mugwump is live-showing his new album for the second time. There’s a video, kind of sexy and clean, which is the best way to describe the overal scene. Just for the idea of mixing them in a venue like le Central is worth it.

In the middle of this crazyness, you maybe decide that you want even more. You’re longing for the summer festivals. I can’t fast forward the time but I can propose you, in the heart of this winter to go and psych yourself at the Stellar Swamp psychedelic festival. Or to follow your Impulse at the Pyramide.

Anyway one of the best way to heat up a body is to make it dance (it’s not the only one though, but I leave other methods to your fantasies). This week: go the the Grand Place and open your ears: you should hear sounds coming for many places close by: the Bonnefooie – as usual – with a Boochie night, for example.. or even better: dj soFa on Friday. You may hear sounds coming from l’Epicerie moderne for the Classique Birthday Tour.

And a bit further the Thin Consolation Label Night at the Central…

After touring and discovering all around the hyper center, let’s go to the Night Shop party… they also have beers there, and as it’s the Recyclart it might not be as expensive as in a real night shop in downtown.

Outside the center, there’s a big opening in Saint-gilles for a very small cafe calle La Pompe, because it’s in a former “pompe à essence” (petrol pump). Stereoclip is invited to play:

Looking for the groove, so head to Bar du Matin and the Supafly Party, a great female collective:

There’s other parties, like the Brüxsel Jardin who’s inviting Kann Records to play at the Wild Gallery in Forest.

Or a Dub party at Au Quai, in the bank of the Canal:

Life is not only a party: there’s a brand new market who will open on Friday at Tours & Taxis (and it will be about time for me to update the guide to apéros and Open airs),for the opening they will burn the Snowman! And there’s also the opening of a new occupied building in Saint-Josse by La Communa….

So I leave you to all this. Enjoy yourself and keep me informed on how you liked it or not. I won’t be able to check it by mysel because once again, Berlin is calling me. It means that next week, there’s no agenda, but have not fear: I will teach you how to fish!